UK law students are starting to prefer US firms
Law students increasingly view US firms as more attractive places to work.
The Chinese firm with ten thousand lawyers
Yingke’s franchise like model has enabled it to double in size in the last five years.
The tyranny of high margins
The most profitable UK firms often have the smallest employment practices.
Flexible working at City firms? Allow us to be sceptical
Law firms’ remote working policies aren’t as flexible as they seem.
The law’s first milkshake duck is inevitable
Law firms need to be aware of the social media influencers that work for them.
The most successful US firm in London has a trainee problem
Kirkland needs to improve its trainee scheme to maintain sustainable growth.
Webinar: The Workplace Revolution: Rethinking your tech stack for the long-term shift to flexible work
The global pandemic has accelerated the adoption of nascent technologies, especially technologies that allow employees to work from home and maintain connections with customers. Like all businesses, law firms were deeply impacted by COVID-19 and seismic shifts in workplace norms. According to Bloomberg Law, at least 75% of employees in the legal industry have been […]
Freshfields roundtable: Getting to grips with ESG disclosure
While the pandemic was an unexpected addition to GC workloads over 2020/21, how to deal with environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) concerns is an issue that lingers and continues to puzzle corporate entities. This was discussed in more detailed earlier this month at a roundtable hosted by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, as part of The […]
Linklaters’ former head of leveraged finance lines up next role
Linklaters‘ former global head of leveraged finance has found his next role, months after leaving the firm where he spent most of his 25-year career. Adam Freeman has taken on a position as an associate at the Møller Institute, a leadership and professional development entity at Churchill College, one of the colleges of the University […]
Over 180 Shoosmiths staff transfer over to new JV
Shoosmiths has spun out its volume recoveries business, with a large team of qualified lawyers and support staff moving over to work on the new venture. The firm has launched Equivo with collections, recoveries and enforcement business Chartsbridge. Shoosmiths’ chief executive Simon Boss said the reasoning behind the creation of Equivo was that there was […]
Three firms battle it out in Court of Appeal movie dispute
Womble Bond Dickinson and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan lost out to boutique outfit Clintons in the Court of Appeal this week, in a challenge over the terms of a film contract. The dispute centred around the meaning of ‘return’ in one of the many commercial contracts relating to a film called ‘Starbright’. Under the […]
White & Case hands PE leadership role to Brussels partner
Ahead of the departure of Ian Bagshaw this summer, White & Case has appointed a Brussels-based partner as its new co-head of global private equity. Thierry Bosly has been named in the role, having led the firm’s Belgium and Luxembourg transactional practices. He joined White & Case in 2003 from Linklaters. Bosly will lead the group […]